handrail
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You’re either stuck to a vinyl-clad seat or grabbing up for a handrail and trying to direct your face away from the armpits to your left and right.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
She finished by painting the handrail bright blue and wrapping each stair with a Persian-style runner.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2026
Known as 'the handrail of the Mournes' as it helps guide hikers, it is made of natural granite stone using only traditional dry stone walling techniques.
From BBC ● May 4, 2025
The collection’s key motif was a curved red handrail designed for Milan’s 60-year-old red line by the late architect Franco Albini.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 13, 2024
Boards have been lifted off the trestle floor itself, and the handrail has been replaced in spots.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
Such changes will vary in cost and might mean adding a stairlift, better lighting, handrails, nonslip surfaces, a safer bathroom or even relocating a bedroom to the main floor.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
Nearby, a municipal flagpole is rusted, palm trees are dead, handrails are covered with stickers and a sign establishing a “Special Enforcement and Cleaning Zone” is covered with grime and graffiti.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2026
The main residence has a grand staircase with custom brass handrails.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025
Others, visibly distraught, squeezed onto crowded buses -- gripping handrails and bags -- or loaded onto lorries waiting to be spirited away.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2025
The kids who skated the handrails at the park back in Chicago would’ve been impressed.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
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